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The Enchanted Garden of Sedj

The 1994 Oziana has two stories that were written for the Oz Story Circle, run by Fred Meyer. I was a member back then, but it would take twenty more years for something I wrote around that time to appear … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Authors, C.S. Lewis, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Chronicles of Narnia, Dennis Anfuso, Eric Shanower, Fred Otto, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Marcus Mebes, Monsters, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged allison mcbain, benjamin fang, bill eubank, billy bumble of oz, buckethead in oz, bumble, cap'n bill, clowns, cory in oz, cowardly lion, dennis anfuso, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dot and tot of merryland, dragons, fred meyer, ghostbusters, ghosts, ghosts in oz, glinda, great book of records, international wizard of oz club, jack pumpkinhead, jane albright, jellia jamb, kimberly doyle, leprechauns in oz, lurline, magic belt, margaret berg, marie candler richardson, mark haas, merryland, nine tiny piglets, notta bit more, oziana, ozma, patchwork girl, professor grunter swyne, puns, robin olderman, scarecrow, simon t. inphinium, squealina swyne, teenty-weent, the cowardly lion of oz, the last battle, the salt sorcerer of oz and other stories, the silver jug, the tin woodman of oz, the winged monkeys of oz, the witch queen of oz, tin woodman, witches, wizard of oz |

Do Not Be Alarmed, We Are Only Little Children

Silver Bullet – Based on a Stephen King novella with a different name, this stars Corey Haim as a paraplegic kid who rides around in a motorized wheelchair called, appropriately, the Silver Bullet. He comes to realize that the murders … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Halloween, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged bats, catherine o'hara, corey haim, count dracula, don rickles, filmation, gary busey, ghostbusters, gilda radner, halloween with the addams family, lou scheimer, shades of dracula, silver bullet, the addams family, vampires, werewolves, witch's night out, witches |

I Have the Power!

Hell’s Super, by Mark Cain – This comedic look at the popular conception of Hell is narrated by Steve Minion, a rich guy in life who became the superintendent in Hell, conscripted to fix everything that breaks. The fact that … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Cartoons, Celebrities, History, Humor, Mythology, Oz, Religion, Star Trek, Television | Tagged andy mangels, bill cosby, captain marvel, creating the filmation generation, divine comedy, fat albert, filmation, florence nightingale, ghostbusters, he-man, hell, hell's super, henry ford, inferno, jason of star command, journey back to oz, lou scheimer, mark cain, masters of the universe, nikola tesla, orko, orson welles, ozcon international, shazam, she=ra, sid haig, skeletor, superman, the real ghostbusters, the three stooges, thomas edison |

Gated Communities

As if Gamergate wasn’t bad enough, now there’s Comicsgate as well, because people suck. And both of these supposed movements have people using these terms to refer to themselves, despite the fact that using “gate” in the names of scandals … Continue reading →

Posted in Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Gender, Prejudice, Star Trek, Video Games | Tagged beta ray bill, captain america, captain marvel, carol danvers, comicsgate, diversity, gamergate, ghostbusters, hedy wolfe, hellcat, jane foster, Marvel Cinematic Universe, nintendo power, patsy walker, social justice warriors, thor |

Please Don’t Feed the Ghosts

Hungry ghosts are a Buddhist concept, but they’ve spread into other East Asian religious traditions as well. The Sanskrit term for this kind of spirit is preta, which basically means “departed.” The Chinese name for them, èguǐ, means “hungry ghost,” … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Chinese, Greek Mythology, Halloween, Holidays, Japanese, Judaism, Monsters, Mythology, Pac-Man, Religion, Video Games | Tagged bible, book of enoch, egui, gaki, genesis, ghostbusters, ghosts, grigori, hidarugami, hungry ghost festival, hungry ghosts, jikininki, nephilim, preta, slimer, tantalus, watchers |

Something Strange in the Neighborhood

The new Ghostbusters movie was the subject of criticism long before it even came out, with some bottom-feeding Internet denizens being distraught over the idea that the new Ghostbusters were of the female persuasion. Some other complaints focused more on … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, Prejudice, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged ghostbusters, ghosts, harold ramis, james rolfe, kate mckinnon, kristen wiig, leslie jones, melissa mccarthy, misogyny, remakes, sexism, slimer |

Mashed Potatoes Can Be Your Friends

Released in 1985, “Weird Al” Yankovic’s third album, Dare to Be Stupid, showed higher production values than the first two. Al was more of an established artist by this time, and the label was presumably willing to spend more on … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Music, Star Wars, Television, Weird Al Yankovic | Tagged 27, accordion, al-tv, cyndi lauper, dare to be stupid, darth vader, devo, duran duran, eric idle, george lucas, george of the jungle, ghostbusters, hall and oates, harvey leeds, huey lewis, johnny dangerously, julia waters, kinks, luke skywalker, madonna, mark hamill, mark mothersbaugh, maxine waters, michael jackson, mystery science theater 3000, nena, peter and the wolf, polka, ray davies, return of the jedi, ted turner, the empire strikes back, the food album, this island earth, top secret!, transformers, twisted sister, wendy carlos, yoda |

Who You Gonna Call?

Beth and I watched both Ghostbusters films last night. It had been a while since either of us had seen them, and they definitely hold up. I had actually remembered the first one including more of the guys catching individual … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged bill murray, brian doyle-murray, dan aykroyd, egon spengler, exodus, ghostbusters, ghostbusters ii, ghosts, gozer the gozerian, john belushi, peter venkman, ray stantz, rick moranis, slimer, statue of liberty, the real ghostbusters, tiamat, vigo the carpathian |

Ghosting Through Life

Even though Oz has a community of Halloween-style monsters, it seems to be pretty light on ghosts and ghouls. While L. Frank Baum did write ghost stories (“My Ruby Wedding Ring” comes to mind), he tended to leave the afterlife … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Oz | Tagged ak, awgwas, fall guys, ghostbusters, ghosts, ghosts in oz, gump, heaven, l. frank baum, marie candler richardson, maybe the miffin, monsters, oziana, ozma, phyllis ann karr, powder of life, scare city, simon t. inphinium, snif the iffin, the life and adventures of santa claus, the marvelous land of oz, undead, wicked witch of the east, wizard of oz |

It’s Slime Time

The Dragon Quest series was hardly the first to include sentient slime monsters. In fact, they seem to be pretty standard in fantasy role-playing games. According to this, producer Yuji Horii was directly inspired by the Creeping Crud from the … Continue reading →

Posted in Captain N: The Game Master, Dragon Quest, Television, Video Games | Tagged akira toriyama, antidote spell, babble, creeping crud, cureslime, gem slime, ghostbusters, healer, healie, healslime, king healslime, king metal slime, king slime, liquid metal slime, liquid slime, man o' war, medislime, metabble, metal babble, metal slime, monsters, slime knight, slimer, slimes, the real ghostbusters, the trojan dragon, wizardry, yuji horii |